I am thrilled to announce the release
of the new 2nd edition of Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of
Discovery. With a new publishing
company, I am happy to be able to offer this 2nd edition at a much lower
price. The nature of genealogy research
has witnessed some changes since its first release in 2008 due to advances in
technologies. Because of this, the 2nd
edition contains an updated Research
Tips section, a number of other updates, and a new epilogue that shows
how autosomal DNA testing validated my research findings.
Mississippi to Africa can be described as an extensive case study of an
African-American family – my maternal grandmother’s mother’s family – whose roots
were successfully traced back 7 generations to an 18th-century
enslaved couple in South Carolina. That
couple is believed to have been among the first ancestors to step foot on
American soil. This book takes readers on
my 14-year journey that involved finding numerous records that enabled me to
methodically piece together my family puzzle, generation after generation, in 5 informative chapters. The
explanatory nature of this journey, which is told in a narrative form, helps and
inspires everyone, including the beginner researcher,
the intermediate researcher, and the advanced researcher.
Along with the oral history from a number
of family elders, one who died in 2008 at the age of 103, the sources that
enabled me to document 7 generations include:
Bills of
sale (slaves)
Books
Census
records
Church
records
City
directories
County
history books
Court
records
Death records
Deeds of
gifts (slaves)
Diaries
/ memoirs
Educable
Children school records (Mississippi)
Freedmen’s
Bank applications
Land
records
Linguistic
books
Marriage
records
Military
pension record (Civil War)
Newspaper
articles
Probate
records
Slave
inventories
Slave
narrative
Slave
schedules
Social
security applications
Southern
Claims Commission records
Tax
digests
Transatlantic slave trade data
Wills
World
War I draft registration card
...and more
...and more
F O L L O W T H E J O U R N E Y A N D L E A R N A L O T !
Hi Melvin,
ReplyDeleteWill the 2nd edition be available for the Kindle?
Since the book contains a lot of pictures and scanned documents, converting it to Kindle will be quite challenging. This will likely be one of those books in which having the paperback will be most effective.
DeleteOk!
DeleteThat said, I will put in my order for the paperback edition!